Mark A. Murphy’s first full length collection, Night-watch Man & Muse was published in 2013 from Salmon Poetry (Eire). His poems have appeared in over 160 magazines world-wide. Lit Fest Press in America aim to publish his latest manuscript, The Ontological Constant in early 2018.

​ Helen Keller Paradox or Out of the Dark

“The only thing worse than being blind is having no sight.” - Helen Keller

For a woman that never listened to the radio,(except by her finger tips)watched a television, or told a patriotic lieto save her own skin,but argued for peace in times of warand equality during the heresies of the past,who lived in a perpetual land of silence,darkness and disparity -without a prejudiced bone in her bodytowards her fellows, no lessa woman, for all her inability to hear or seethe material world,a woman who knew all the artsof love and patience and forgivenessin the violetsof Mark Twain's garden,living by her own dictum that Knowledge is love and light and vision... our sister in destinyheld greater acuity, finer artistryin one little fingerthan all the wolves of Wall Street, all the hawksof Capitol Hill, and all the president's men.